Feb 17

 

Week: 8 Day: 48	Ave. Sky Cover:  60% Visibility: 10 miles
Local Temp:   39°\ 17° Wind: 7mph\ Gusts: 13mph	Low risk of fire Active fire: 159mi. \ Lightning: 1387mi.
Feb Averages: 46°\19° (5 days w/moisture)

 

Today’s Quote

Weekly Observations

 

4-20	Winter Olympics XXIV
11-20	Date (Fruit) Week
12-19	National Entrepreneurship Week Link
13-19	Children of Alcoholics Week Link  International Flirting Week    Jell-O Week Love A Mensch Week National Secondhand Wardrobe Week Random Acts of Kindness Week Link
14-21	National Condom Week National Nestbox Week NCCDP Alzheimer's & Dementia Staff Education Week
17-20	American Association for The Advancement of Science Week

 

Daily Observations

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

So far this morning it has been clear, cloudy, snowing, and clear…all before noon.

My jury duty update…at 2:30 yesterday I got an email saying that we didn’t have to meet until 9am. Turns out another email came in at 4:45 yesterday that cancelled the trial all together. I didn’t see that one until I was dressed and ready to head out at 8:00 this morning. An interesting and possibly important news item was also in my email…it seems a man in the jail committed suicide Monday night. I won’t know if it is the same case until they release the suicide guy’s name. I guessing…probably.

It was -26°F during the downhill Olympic events. I was in that temperature when I was in South Dakota. Note…the moisture in your nose freezes when you breathe in.

Remington sold most of its holding after Sandy Hook. Now they have agreed to pay $73million to the families of Sandy Hook. They were in court for ‘glamorizing’ their rifle as a symbol of manhood. While the settlement will not bring back any of the kids and staff that were killed, it does seem better than ‘condolences and prayers’, which is all the families had until this agreement.

There is a lot of talk about a Federal Tax Holiday on the gas excise tax. If it happens it will save us about 18¢ a gallon. It will not effect the state excise tax on gas…AZ is 19¢ a gallon and CO is 22¢ a gallon. 

Favorite Memes

 

A bit of Humor

If Apple made a car what would be missing?

Windows

Trivia

Question: What animal is known to be ‘man’s best friend’?

 Question: What animal is covered in quills?

 Question: What’s a newly hatched butterfly called?

 Question: What does a snake shed a few times a year?

 

 

ANSWERS:

Answer 1: Dog

Answer 2: Porcupine

Answer 3: Caterpillar

Answer 4: Its skin

Historical Events

W                 865 – Columbia, South Carolina surrendered to General Sherman’s Union forces. Fort Sumpter was also returned to Union control.

W                 1897 – The National Parent Teacher Association was formed.

W                 1904 – Giacomo Puccini’s opera Madame Butterfly premiered at the La Scala theatre in Milan, Italy. It was one of the first worldwide pop culture event ‘hits’.

W                 1929 – The League of Latin American Citizens (LULAC) was founded.

W                 1933 – The magazine Newsweek was published for the first time. Newsweek ceased print publication with the December 31, 2012 issue.

W                 1936 – The Phantom, Comic Strip debuted.

W                 1968 – The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame opened in Springfield, MA

W                 2009 – 368 US Television stations permanently shut off their analog transmission signals, becoming digital.

Birthdays Today

96 – Hal Holbrook, American actor

86 –  Jim Brown, football star

@84 – Walter ‘Red’ Barber, American sportscaster (d. 1992)

@75 – Buster Crabbe, American Olympian, actor (d. 1983; heart attack)

@77 – Mary Ann Mobley, American model, actress, Miss America 1959 (d. 2014; cancer)

@66 – Gene Pitney, American singer-songwriter (d. 2006; heart attack)

60 – Lou Diamond Phillips, American actor

59 – Michael Jordan, American basketball player

59 – Larry the Cable Guy (Daniel Whitney), American comedian

57 – Michael Bay, American director, producer

51 – Denise Richards, American model, actress

50 – Billie Joe Armstrong, American singer-songwriter

48 – Jerry O’Connell, American actor

@47 – Huey P. Newton, activist, co-founded the Black Panther Party (d. 1989; murder)

41 – Joseph Gordon-Levitt, American actor, director, and producer

41 – Paris Hilton, American model, media personality

31 – Ed Sheeran, English singer-songwriter